Movies You Watched Today: Youtube VHS Rip - Part 3 of XX

[Rudie]

I like 2046 a lot more.

I liked ITMfL more on my most recent 3rd watch though.

Now the WKW I do not like is that desert time one. That felt like wasting my time.

[drastic_bb]

idk why but december is the month of action movies for me so i watched con air… its kind of amazing, it’s like notably vile and regressive among action movies i think like bad boys ii level (it feels like an imitation of michael bay) nicolas cage has a memorable haircut and i love what a weird action hero he is in this and face/off… and i love the way everyone is silhouetted in the sandstorm scene.

it’s like amazing and horrible at the same time and way too long with a ridiculous cast, i mean if people like christopher nolan movies for being like these in-camera effects movies this is just as notable in that regard i think it’s like stuff is exploding in-camera, stunt actors flying through the air in slow motion constantly

and i mean we can all agree the 90s were a different time so i was surprised that it had what i think of as positive lgbt representation lol

[vodselbt]

Priscilla was very good! Lots of people saying they were disappointed by how shallow and insubstantial the portrayal of Priscilla Presley was, but like… how much depth is there going to be in someone’s personality that was married off to the biggest celebrity before she finished high school and lived a life secluded from her parents any potential allies and the world inside a home that was not hers, etc. It’s a quiet and subtle depiction, with lots of things to catch if you have your eyes open and your brain turned on. I really liked it.

[LaurelSoup]

@iguferon

All the music ry cooder made for stroker ace ended up in streets of fire (???) which is insane to me

And Neutron Dance was made for Streets of Fire but ended up in Beverly Hills Cop.

[masutado]

I rewatched Jūzō Itami’s directorial swansong Supermarket Woman and had as good of a time as ever. Whilst not as sharp, or as seething, or as scathing, or as stylish as some of his other works I nevertheless appreciated the following:

1. Itami-san’s continued movie premise pitch of “it’s about a woman…that’s really good at her job…and also the woman is played by my wife”.
2. the incredible fashions Nobuko Miyamoto wears in every scene. 90s color blocking via way of believable 90s Japanese housewife chic. we LOVE to see it.
3. the physical slapstick comedy carefully interwoven into practically every scene. (watching Nobuko Miyamoto try to carefully step over Masahiko Tsugawa to pay her respects at his wife’s shrine is so perfect in every way)

Is it the man’s best work? absolutely not - you cannot convince me otherwise. And yet?? It is a pleasant and entertaining exploration of the easily-ignored world of supermarkets as cut-throat, experimental business ventures with a lot of great performances and a remarkably LESS horny script that you’d expect from Itami. Perfect for rainy Sunday evenings, but not as ever-present in my hellscape braincage as Tampopo, A Taxing Woman, or Minbo. Hard to recommend as an introduction to Itami’s oeuvre, but easy to recommend to those who might otherwise be uninterested in erotic egg-yolk kissing and distinctively Japanese business escapades.

[hellojed]

Jingle All The Way

• featuring Paul Wight, who shows up and says “im gonna deck your halls, bub”

• Clarence Carter’s “Backdoor Santa”

• Verne Troyer in an uncredited role

• Phil Hartman, Sinbad, Jake Lloyd, and the future govenor of California

not sure why they chose Arnold as the lead, he sticks out so much.

[swarm]

Watched The Holdovers. It’s been a decade since Nebraska, and I was really worried that Alexander Payne no longer had it in him after that piece of shit Downsizing. But this movie was really good, and incidentally a good Christmas movie, if y’all are looking for something to watch this holiday!!!

Also wow, they really nailed the early 70s aesthetic of this movie, feels a lot like The Paper Chase. From the cinematography and I’m guessing period-accurate ADR? The closeness of the mics on all the dialogue. Also I was kind of scared that Paul Giamatti got really old all of sudden so I checked his age and he’s only 56? So there must have been some makeup going on.

[Felix]

Downsizing was not great but it was Hong Chau’s big break so I forgive it everything

[Khan]

@hellojed

not sure why they chose Arnold as the lead, he sticks out so much.

and thats exactly why the movies so magical imo! it just fully ignores that he is a meat man and treats him like just some midwest salaryman who is emasculated by his neighbor being wealthier and better at bullshit suburban life than him, theres just something about the way that surreal touch makes everything about this ideal of american family seem so obviously bad. its turbo time babey

[hellojed]

i think my favorite part of the movie is when sinbad uses the flying fist attack which fully detaches his hand and reels it back. it shouldnt physically actually work but does anyway.

[skelephone]

We watched Rebel Moon: Part One: A Child of Fire and it is terrible. It’s so lazy that explaining how it is bad feels like a waste of my mental energy

[VastleCania]

yeah i couldn’t even rouse the energy to write the long post about how much i hate it. about the time that the movie became blade runner for twelve seconds is about the time my brain gave up recording any new information or feeling

[skelephone]

I love to visit one new planet every 8 minutes and acquire one new scruffy guy for my grimy ass warhammer Star Wars guy squad on each planet. Each guy does one cool thing and all but one of them are precisely 35 years old and completely covered in dirt. Then I fly immediately to the next planet so that none of my guys can talk to one another and develop relationships or even distinct characters

[extrabastardformula]

Watched Nobody. Stylish violence, it’s hard not to enjoy it, especially when the cast has charisma like that.

[Grandpa]

Pretty good use of Pat Benatar in that one.

[meauxdal]

I agree that Rebel Moon sucks but I did enjoy it despite it sucking

[drastic_bb]

i watched die hard 1 again ln its so good…

i like how it treats the nakatomi building as this high tech fortress that a group of pro criminals capture using military weapons, the building and streets around it function as this postmodern battlefield… john mcclane is able to navigate the postmodern battlefield in unconventional ways, moving thru air ducts and elevator shafts as police lay siege to the castle with armored trucks and helicopters

and john mctiernan’s direction is exceptionally good, i think it’s sort of like the Tactical Espionage Action version of a brian de palma film if that makes any sense… i just think that there is maybe a much more sophisticated idea of how to shoot and direct action or suspense setpieces (stuff like john mcclane suspended over a matte painting air shaft by the sling of his smg feels hitchcock) than a lot of movies have, there is a unity between the flowing steadicam and anamorphic lens flares and the way stunt actors move across the frame… this is the kind of stuff im looking for in an Action Film u know

i like die hard bc as much of it takes place from alan rickman’s perspective as bruce willis’s… like yeah it’s a movie about cops catching some robbers but its also a movie about swag pro criminal guys robbing a corporation with guns and explosives. con air is kind of like that too (as one of the better die hard-inspired action-thriller type movies imo) it’s fun when the “bad guys” are winning too.

i go back and forth between finding the 80s / 90s action movie politics repugnant or hilarious, these movies feel kind of blackpilled at times and some of the like dumbass regressive shit feels a little ironic at times, there’s the fbi duo like “25% of the hostages might die, im fine with that tho ” and an Entire Subplot and character arc where 2 “good” guys bond over shooting and killing children

i guess i feel like the American Action Movie expresses certain things about like… the united states and its culture that i and a lot of reasonable people see. america worships cops and the military-industrial complex you dont have to put a spin on it when you talk about these movies. they both already know and theyre laughing about it. in a way that appeals to me too, if a movie makes its point for me.

i recently watched the blackhat directors cut cause its finally out on blu ray and it was great. i think there’s a similarity between the 2 movies in how they focus on the transformation of urban / mundane spaces like waterways and office buildings into postmodern battlefields…

but like in blackhat the cops arent the good guys. they are part of the same party as hathaway but the criminal is the hero and at the end of the day his own party members are standing between him and freedom. i might prefer watching that than watching a movie thats like america fuck yeah most of the time.

anyways i love that john mcclane is injured more grievously than most action heroes and spends most of the last act limping around and also the miniatures and matte paintings and huge blood squibs are a delight. also love how the movie is lit and that its shot on film. i think i basically decided that i do think most action movies should be like that. i never watched ronin or strange days or w/e and thought oh i wish this were on the unreal 5 mandalorian set and had explosions that looked like shit. lol!

[Felix]

Tony Scott always loved this beat

[iguferon]

I always liked that die hard 2 has an extremely convoluted plot about SF guys aiding and abetting a drug kingpin through domestic terrorism involving guys having blanks or real bullets and tons of staged firefights where you can only tell what’s going on if you pay attention to the color of tape on their MP5 mags

[u_u]

Die Hard 2 is great BC it must have been one of the first movies to use the “Die Hard in a…” pitch and the best they could do was “Die Hard in an airport”