Me! I love Nancy!! I’m a certified last girl defender
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well good thing she dies in 3 so you dont have to
just kidding i think nancy rocks too
i mean im not kidding she dies
but she does deserve our defense
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I watched em all in a row once and I can’t remember shit about most of em except Dream Warriors. And the first one of course cause I’ve seen it like 10 times.
I’m Nancy’s boyfriend now, Nancy. blehblehblehbleh
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I think the nancy/dream warriors arc of freddy is one of the most satisfying horror movie trilogies
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people sleep on the dream master for some reason even though it has kincade and joey from 3 dying first!! i was just talking to wourme about this too, but like when loved ones of mine die i always speculate on what power of theirs im going to inherit cuz of freddy 4. thats right, freddy 4 helped me with grief which now makes it ILLEGAL for anyone to think lesser of it. everyone must rewatch alice KICKING ASS and think of my dummy child self with an alcoholic parent mary sueing the FUCK out of her. the movies go together really well, even 5 and 6 have connective tissue to the others! ITS THE LIKE MOST COHESIVE SLASHER OF THE 80S AND EARLY 90S THERES A REASON I NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT FREDDY
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Went ahead and watched this expecting to hate it, and…look, it’s no RoboCop 1, but it’s a hell of a lot better than 2.
Like, yeah, there’s no Peter Weller, but the guy they got seems more into it than Weller was in 2 (and who could blame him). The rest of the cast is nuts - Stephen Root! Rip Torn! The lady from Crossing Jordan! The dad from Get Out! The main guy from Frankenhooker! Didn’t even realize that Bertha is a voice I’ve heard for years, CCH “Amanda Waller” Pounder.
If you’re gonna do a movie that straddled being an R-rated action movie with a sorta “kids will probably watch this anyway, so we’ll have a scrappy kid in the main crew” thing going, you could do worse than have Fred “The Monster Squad” Dekker helm it.
Don’t get me wrong! It still kinda sucks! But if I gotta pick a bad RoboCop sequel to watch, I’d probably watch this one again before 2, easy.
Plus it has a The Go-Go’s song…automatic bonus point from me.
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Thank you for continuing to defend Freddy’s honor I wholeheartedly agree. 6 is def my least favorite but I still give it credit for being weird/goofy as heck in a way that feels pretty novel to me. I am just not a fan of the gimmicky use of 3d but still think it’s better than Friday the 13th 3D. But I’m generally a Jason hater (except X which rules) so that’s not surprising
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yeah the gimmicky 3d is the worst part but the fact that someone actually puts on 3d glasses in the movie world to signify, you, the viewer should also put on yours is GENIUS imo
its also one for the girls with daddy issues. its like every freddy movie was made to babysit my trauma in a particular way
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They kind of all are tho (not 2 I guess) but yea that one REALLY is
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do NOT give away the secrets and clauses of the fatherless child club
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Yeah I legit think it’s a good old fashioned time. Much like Return of the Jedi in fact!
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When Bella is finally turned into a vampire and has to go on a hunt through the woods with Edward, it looks just like this
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Any time I watch a movie at home, it’s seldom I can do it uninterrupted. Not like, pee breaks, just losing focus, looking at my phone for a bit, y’know. Even real good ones have a chance at losing me.
Anyway, I watched Barbie straight through and was glued to it, so, y’know. 
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I finally got around to seeing Beau Is Afraid. I wanted to see it in the theater but it’s hard for me to commit to watching a three-hour movie, at home or otherwise. Even though I can easily spend that long or longer playing a video game.
Agree that the big reveal in the attic was a disappointment. I guess they were going for something like Society but it looked cheap and didn’t really work. That said, with as many wild scenes as there are, not all of them are going to land gracefully and I appreciate how outrageous everything is and I’m glad they weren’t more cautious about what to include.
It’s kind of hard to think of who I might recommend this to but I really liked it. Makes me think of movies like Zardoz, where the filmmakers are able to get a budget for something off the wall following a mainstream success.
Lots of great dark comedy moments, surrealism, and clever writing.
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I started watching this on the plane to buttville and I need to finish it I have like half an hour left
sequel called Beau Is Not Afraid and its 90 minutes of Phoenix doing king fu shit
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I re-watched and continued to love Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married. It’s one thing to make a familial drama about unresolved tensions and trauma which lead to continuous bouts of exchanged emotional brutality between people bound by their middle-class social mores to stick things out, but to do that in such an immersive and panic-enducing way? The kinetic filmmaking and the soundscape is so overwhelming; the excellent filmmaking really does a lot to elevate this out of consideration as just a banal melodrama. But I love the drama. It is such a sad movie about the difficulty but necessity to be willing to extend or create grace, when it’s appropriate. I also love people getting mad about their complex feelings towards the complex characters in letterboxd reviews. Very funny to read and be smug about.
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My Wife loves this film, also Pieces of April
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plaaaane movies
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Asteroid City: Better, and weirder, than I was expecting, despite having read a lot about it already. I still do not think WeS has topped Grand Budapest Hotel, but I think this is my second favorite film of his since then. The other surprising thing about it was how similar it is to his recent Roald Dahl adaptations, which I also enjoyed. Biggest problem with this movie is that the two best gags come in the first minute or so of the film, the unexpected “Jeff Goldblum as THE ALIEN” in the opening credits and then the text “Atomic bomb: Do not detonate without permission of the president of the united states” written on the bomb in one of the first scenes. Haven’t seen Oppenheimer yet but I’m gonna say this is a better movie about the atomic era than that.
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TMNT Mutant Mayhem: Slight, but fun. Felt like a feature length pilot rather than a full movie, but that’s fine. I hope they make half a dozen of these. Star studded voice cast was less distracting than I expected, the teens playing the turtles are still the stars and that is a good move. I really like the style but the plane seat movie screen probably wasn’t doing it any favors.
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The Super Mario Bros Movie: I know I sound so naive for saying this, but somehow I did not know this was like, a kids movie? I mean I didn’t think it was for adults or whatever, I think I was just expecting something that tried harder to pander to millennial nostalgia. I guess it’s good that it didn’t but halfway through I did start to feel kind of embarrassed about watching a movie meant entirely for six year olds. There is something very pure about the complete lack of any of those pixar-style jokes or plot points that go over kids heads and are meant for bored parents instead. I think the nostalgia-baiting music cues were really the only “easter eggs” for demented middle aged gamers, and that is probably how it should be. But because of this it’s like… why do movies like this even need dialogue? Every line in the movie is either an extremely lazy one liner or some kind of micro-exposition that exists purely to explain why the next big action sequence is happening. You don’t need any of that stuff, just make a 90 minute silent movie about mario jumping on shit, it would still make a billion dollars. Now that kids are exposed to super weird algorithmically generated YouTube nonsense from infancy, I think big budget kids movies could adjust by indulging these kinds of formalist experiments. Like, who says a feature length film needs a plot? The target audience doesn’t care, and their parents don’t give a shit what’s going on anyway.
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3 episodes of Poker Face: OK, important context for this one–Was traveling to visit family, and we spent a lot of downtime in the hotel watching Columbo, which I’ve never done before. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but uhhh Columbo fucking rules? I can’t wait to watch the rest of these, it’s interesting to me how well the writing holds up, the actors are all great, and it is so fun to see all the early 70s LA locations and stuff. So, anyway, I think having just been Columbo’d is the exact right mindset to watch Poker Face in. It is a loving tribute without really feeling derivative. I’m kind of sad I have no real way of watching more of either of these shows right now but I do kind of want to figure out how to do that. It’s actually kind of irritating how much better than either of the Knives Out movies this is. But, I do think they are trying to cram a little bit too much into each hour-long episode. Columbo eps don’t have any kind of overarching narrative, and they still really make use of like the full 90 minutes, I think these would be better if they were of similar length. Anyway Natasha Lyonne is a national treasure.
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