just went looking for the inevitable reddit thread and imo this person has the exact right muppet movie ranking (the first two are obvious, they correctly identified that the tina fey one is way better than the jason segel one or any of the other ones they made after jim henson died, and the charles grodin one is the best of the rest)
My list has the original movie and the Ray Liotta scene from muppets in space at the top, everything else tied for last place
This remains my most astute Muppet observation:
it is never wrong to love her
muppets from space is the only thing Iām aware of jeffrey tambor having been in between larry sanders and arrested development and he appeared to have gained weight in that few yearsā span that made him look like my uncle in a way I donāt care for
the most recent Muppet special i watched was the haunted mansion one from a couple years ago and the most memorable thing was just how clearly overjoyed Will Arnett was getting to act opposite the Muppet gang. thatās how you know youāve really made it as a performer, when you get to do a scene with Kermit
Every background in muppet haunted mansion looked like a bad ps1 survival horror wall
Youre right but i cant tell if you mean that as a bad thing
Itās crazy that the Muppet haunted mansion thing was basically fine but the series about the Muppet band was just unwatchable. How did they manage to do a pretty good job with a shameless Disney theme park ride tie-in but completely botch a pretty decent premise
just rewatched speed i basically think this is one of the goated action moviesā¦ the stunt driving, miniatures work, practical effects, theyre all completely amazing. and when they blow up a plane they actually blow up a plane (or im pretty sure just a miniature model) in front of the camera, and itās completely beautiful like watching fireworks. cgi still usually looks like a ps3 game, i feel like you dont hear about ai anymore so dall-e probably fell off, there really might just be no better way of doing some of these things than just doing them imo! and when there are helicopter shots theyre up there with 35mm movie cameras with huge anamorphic lenses flying helicopters around on a movie set, the insurance premiums are probably really high
keanu kills it in this role i think itās one of the movies that made him a lege heās just effortlessly charming and handsome and he does some of his own stunts!!! so this is great for fans of the recent mission impossible movies or that kind of thing where you see tom cruise defy death
itās directed by the cinematographer of die hard, jan de bont, and i love how glossily its shot and lit. much like die hard i think thereās a fascination with likeā¦ building infrastructureā¦ the elevator shaft, the bus brings us to street and transit infrastructure, thereās a chase thru subway maintenance tunnels, a climax on the light railā¦ i think this was probably really inspirational for like, metal gear solid, i dont think its a coincidence that the mgs1 alert theme sounds very similar to one of the themes in speed for example, and maybe i see the gameās fascination with like, diamomd plate surfaces and concrete so polished itās reflective as something in common with movies of this era
sandra bullock is such a sweetie in this role her and keanu are really good together in this!!
and i also think this has one of those action movie dualities where its a cop movie where dozens of cops get exploded and set on fire in slow motion
i love that this was the era where john malkovich plays a guy named Cyrus The Virus so its amazing that they got dennis hopper for this villain role
i also watched strange days the other night i think that is kind of an underrated movie. it opens with a scene where a cameraman literally jumps across a building, with what is probably a huge 35mm movie camera attatched to him. of course there are probably a lot of hidden wires and nets and safety precautions and ways of cheating to make things look more impressive but itās really sick!
i like watching this around new years bc it fits into the vibe of my traditional december movies such as uncut gems and fight club (i actually really enjoy discussing movies with my dad so its good to refresh on some of his favs and movies with similar vibes that i can recommend him if i see him for the holidays and heās usually watching some shit like reindeer games starring ben affleck and charlize theron on the tv). ralph fiennes is a good cyberpunk howie bling / harrier du bois, i think he fits into a tradition of roles such as elliott gould in the long goodbye who gets beat up way more than he beats anyone up.
a lot of the movie is kind of what i would describe as āin poor tasteā before anyone runs off to watch it, like it has basically constant violence against women some of it extremely graphic and protracted, also has one of the most like eye-popping scenes ive ever watched where a guy screams a racial slur and then immediately gets lit up like a guy in john wooās windtalkersā¦ followed by like a sweeping, beautiful, romantic interracial kiss scene. 90s movies were different its true but i think kathryn bigelow is a high-caliber sicko just in general. i love some of her movies and dont know if id really enjoy watching most of them.
i guess i basically think it has like a good message tho, the resolution is obvs unrealistic but i guess they let you know at the beginning of the movie that things are like better in this cyberpunk world in some ways, theres a radio broadcast about how america is going to have a second (!) female president by 2025 lmfao, also about turkey acknowledging armenian genocide
i saw a post on tumblr recently about how the poster felt that for example, crowd scenes in recent movies have felt kind of empty and thin, like they didnt want to hire too many extras, and maybe thereās something to thatāi love how huge the street scenes here are either way, another one of those examples of like, how these glossy, commercial films can be really enjoyable to watch imo
also angela basset is really good as the action heroine i would love to see her in another role like that
i also think a lot of the humor in eighties / nineties movies is like pretty crass and broad by todayās standards and that kind of thing and also like sicko violent terror shit and are like way funnier when you start smoking weed it turns out
Watched Saltburn tonight in a whim. Went into it with basically no idea what it was about other than rich people in a big English country house. I assumed something Downton Abbey-ish but was I ever wrong! I really liked it and Barry Keoghan really found his niche playing slightly unsettling people you canāt really figure out.
I would love to spend a summer binging, like, 100 action movies you recommend.
I really enjoyed the Chicken Run sequel on Netflix. Jane Horrocks still comedy MVP.
i liked this list on letterboxd (this guy is like one of the writers associated with Vulgar Auteurism so hes seen a lot of disreputable movies)
Dirty Ho is near the top. Iām totally on board.
can vouch for that guy and the list.
oh yeah speaking of keanu i watched point break a few days ago. its funny how this director went on to win oscars for war propaganda when she started her career making Beefcake Surfer Cop movie. completely ridiculous script delivered with utter sincerity, swayze teaching keanu a bunch of head shop t-shirt aphorisms while looking sore as hell because he broke 4 ribs doing his own surf stunts. anthony keidis blows his own foot off. 5/5
drive (1997) is on there so you know its good
Ya gotta go further back and watch Near Dark, itās a hoot. Or at least it was when I watched it like 20 years ago.
The last 1/3 of that movie is really bad but i love the midwestern gothic and bill paxtonās patch on his jacket that just says WELFARE