That’s funny I watched that right before going on vacation and had the complete opposite reaction HAHAHA
I wish I had this experience!!! my favorite bits were like the slapstick comedy moments between the priests, just to lighten the mood
OH ALSO WHEN LITERALLY NO ONE COULD GET THE DOOR OPEN THAT THE GIRL WAS GETTING ATTACKED BEHIND BUT THEN RUSSELL CROWE COMES IN AND JUST KIND OF KICKS IT AND IT OPENS ahhhh that made me crack up
but why doesnt he know the name osmodeus already hes a lawyer a journalist and a theologian he said it himself
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The way it was like a Vatican approved call of duty game was completely bizarre. The demon sounded like Mike matei
Also I’ve never seen a movie tease 199 sequels before
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Ricky-oh In a fight this dude oscar disembowels himself because he’s going to lose the fight, then says “lets die together” then wraps his intestines around ricky’s neck to choke him out, and then the assistant warden says “You got a lot of guts oscar” oh my goddd
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The Flop House made this sound like a lot of fun.
Based On A Real Man.
“The warden of any prison, has to be a master of kung-fu”
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Ah it’s the movie of the meme, I wonder how good it is
Me literally every time I watch a film that was made before like 2008 “Wow, remember when movies used to frame their shots?”
Anyway, Riki Oh is the story of a guy who has superhuman strength who goes to jail and punches a lot of people. He has bullets in his chest from when a guy shot him and kept them in his body as trophies. In the movie he literally punches through people’s heads, torsos, arms, legs. There’s a lot of fake blood and some really good fights in between. And some incredible outfits.
The assistant warden has a hook arm and a fake eye where he keeps…mints? and his office has a bunch of porn tapes prominently displayed.
the jail has 4 wings, each controlled by a “leader” or basically a boss fight. There’s Oscar here. he dies by (gross) disemboweling himself and wrapping his intestines around ricky’s neck to strangle him, and then the assistant warden goes “oscar, you got a lot of guts!” incredible
There’s three other bosses. One uses steel stakes attached to wires to hook people. Another one is super strong, and the other one is super attractive. They’re growing opium and ricky won’t have it, so he burns it.
Then a bunch of stuff happens. Ricky’s backstory gets fleshed out in flashbacks. He endures some really nasty torture, people’s heads get knocked off. The real warden comes back at one point and he’s an even worse guy.
Remember when they used to frame shots? damn
Anyway after beating everyone and shoving the warden in a meat grinder, he punches a wall and frees everyone
They don’t make em like this anymore
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Thank you for reminding me that I’ve actually seen this
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yeah this movie kicks ass. very fun adaptation from manga to hong kong martial arts gorefest. wish we got more of his iconic little poncho tho cuz its adorable
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apparently real exorcists hated it which is good
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watched no burnham’s inside on a whim and recollection of @Father.Torque’s strong recommendation
the music and lyrics didn’t stick with me so my attention went to the video production. neat use of projectors and reprojecting the program feed on a delay
it’s very weird two years later how little is about the pandemic vs the internet
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Yeah it’s not really about the pandemic, it’s about how the pandemic forced us all to rely exclusively on the internet for interpersonal communication and how horrible that revealed the internet to be
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watched the first 2 hours of KARNAN (கர்ணன், 2021) - couldn’t wait to post about it - it’s uneven pacing for the first half but Mari Selvaraj in his sophomore film proves his ability to keep you riveted to the seat with the power of cinematography and revelatory violence - replicates the experience of watching sparks fly in the vicinity of a powder keg until one finally catches - if you cheered when they burned down the Minneapolis police precinct you must watch this (and of course watch PARIYERUM PERUMAL)
With this one it feels like Mari Selvaraj has learned some cinematography tricks from his neighbors in the Malayalam New Wave, there’s a real Lijo Jose Pellissery-ism to the way that mythological and mystical sequences are interspersed with down to earth rural living. the thing that differs is climate - Lijo Jose depicts Kerala’s jungles and backwaters whereas Mari Selvaraj is interested in southern Tamil Nadu’s arid hills and “wasteland” grasslands. Some stunning landscape shots that give a sense that the events unfolding are bigger than humans, they are social forces and spiritual forces manifested as the massed mob violence of sticks and billhook machetes.
I mentioned earlier that the pacing is very uneven in the first half - we spend a lot of time getting to know the comings and goings of villagers from the oppressed caste village - their personal conflicts, their internalization of the systematic oppression they face, their acting out. We don’t have any perfect victims here. There’s a verisimilitude to the unevenness, I think - social conflicts and social forces do not proceed on a linear path to struggle and victory - it erupts in fits and starts, fizzles out, comes to a head spontaneously or not at all. What the pacing lacks in narrative polish it makes up for in cinema verite (if I’m using that right). The fits-and-starts pacing gives us time to witness and ponder a variety of leitmotifs - a crazed man digging up his front yard, a donkey with its feet tied together, a dinged up old sword that the village bids each of its would be heroes to wield, the headless village deity.
When the climax begins to kick off, it has the feeling of catharsis that Dhanush seems to excel at in his physicality as an actor. Mari Selvaraj and Dhanush - the combo make you cheer for violence and say “it is right to rebel.” Can’t wait to finish it.
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Example of the Tamil “paalai பாலை” landscape in Tirunelveli district, near where KARNAN is set
I kept trying to find more shots from the movie but couldn’t really. It’s utterly striking in motion, great lighting and color grading.
Mari Selvaraj and Vetrimaaran are two Tamil directors that are putting the whole of Indian cinema on their backs rn, I’m excited that they have their whole careers in front of them
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I loved Dhanush in Asuran.
is there even a serious, dramatic pirate movie in existence?? are “pirates” just thematically so weak as a genre that you can’t really do shit with them? I don’t want a coen brothers movie about pirates but I want pirates to be a subject and genre strong enough to get people like the clown brothers doing work.
maybe Zama is a pirate movie?
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there are a lot of old hollywood pirate movies
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captain philips lmao
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…what about The Lighthouse?
Master and Commander is about a couple of workaday knuckleheads finding true companionship in each other while they hunt a pirate ship
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